Jewish Secrets to Wealth, Business & True Meaning | Wealth Over Riches ep.1

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Welcome to our all new podcast on Hidabroot, where wealth over riches. I'm here today with Jonathan Rand, Balshuva business mogul. Being the CFO of Straight Path, that company ended up selling for over a billion dollars. So, Jonathan, uh I don't know if you're ready for this question. You ready? >> I hope so. >> Let's try. I'm I'm about to get into your kishkes. >> [laughter] >> A lot of us were struggling, you know, life is not easy. Life is full of challenges. Share with us your strongest struggle both in your personal life and in your business life. >> It's a great question. I'm really glad you brought it up because there is this facade. It's really a facade that people these external things and yes, everybody struggles, everybody has challenges. I definitely have had and continue to have a lot of personal challenges and challenges in different parts of my family. I'll I'll tell you some, some I'm not going to get into here, but uh I uh you know, when I made that transition to be become Orthodox, I went like maybe 95% over a long time to becoming kosher. And when I was, you know, to the world very kosher, I had a very strong, a little embarrassed to say, but this is not my worst sin either. I'm just going to say it out there. Very strong tie with for McDonald's fish fillet. And after I was like shomer shabbos, kosher, everything, still I would be driving on a trip, you know, and see a McDonald's fish fillet, sneak in there and have a McDonald's fish fillet. And every year, Yom Kippur, fish fillet, fish fillet, and other things too. It's not you know, but it it it took a very long time and I was a tremendous safer

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2. 2:12gift to us to really be forgiven. But you have to come in, you know, looking…
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6. 12:06>> But okay, wow, that's really amazing. So it really was an intellectual experience but little…
7. 15:19structures and understanding complicated negotiations that I could think way ahead, five steps ahead. And what…
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9. 20:01is to become at your own level. I'm not telling someone to jump, you know, crazy…
10. 22:36right? I'm saying when you're grinding in the early days, you weren't you were putting the…

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